2. He comes out like a flower and withers;he flees like a shadow and continues not.
3. And do you open your eyes on such a oneand bring me into judgment with you?
4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?There is not one.
5. Since his days are determined,and the number of his months is with you,and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
6. look away from him and leave him alone,that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
7. “For there is hope for a tree,if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,and that its shoots will not cease.
8. Though its root grow old in the earth,and its stump die in the soil,
9. yet at the scent of water it will budand put out branches like a young plant.
10. But a man dies and is laid low;man breathes his last, and where is he?
11. As waters fail from a lakeand a river wastes away and dries up,
12. so a man lies down and rises not again;till the heavens are no more he will not awakeor be roused out of his sleep.